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 | | The Center received the Complaint of Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama on July 5, 2000, by e-mail and on July 11, 2000, in hardcopy. |
 | | Factual Background 4.1 The Trademark The complaint is based on ownership of the trademark VASCO DA GAMA, registered in Brazil before INPI-Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial under certificate number 006.433.960 of August 10, 1976, duly renewed since then and valid until August 10, 2006 (as per Exhibit 08 of the Complaint). |
 | | The club initiated its involvement with football eighteen years after its foundation, joining the first division of the football league of the state of Rio de Janeiro and winning the championship in 1923. |
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